The noble lyfe a[nd] natures of man of bestes, serpentys, fowles a[nd] fisshes [that] be moste knoweu [sic].
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The noble lyfe a[nd] natures of man of bestes, serpentys, fowles a[nd] fisshes [that] be moste knoweu [sic].
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[Antwerp :: Emprented by me Ioh[a]n of Doesborowe],
[1527?]
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Zoology -- Pre-Linnean works.
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"The noble lyfe a[nd] natures of man of bestes, serpentys, fowles a[nd] fisshes [that] be moste knoweu [sic]." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A68218.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024.
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Ca. xcv.
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TEstudo is a fysshe in a shelle & is in ye se of Inde / & his shelle is very great & like a muskle / & be nyght they go out for theyr mete / & whan they ha / ue eten theyr bely full / thā they slepe swȳmīg vpon the wat. thā ther come iij. fisshers botes / of ye wiche .iij. twayn take one of these muskles Solinus sayth. yt this muskle hathe his vpper∣mest shell so brode that it may couere a howse / where many folke may hyde them vnder / And it gothe out the wat vpon the londe / & there it layth an hon¦dred egges as grete as gose eggis / & co¦uer thē wt erth / & oftentymes be night it gothe to the eggys & layeth vpō thē wt her ••rest / & than become they yōges
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